FOI request (FOI-65455279)

Homelessness 18-21 year olds

Requested Wed 10 January 2018
Responded Mon 05 March 2018

I write to request the
following information from your local authority in accordance
with the Freedom of Information Act, in relation to
homelessness amongst 18-21 year olds. If possible, please
could you provide information using the template spreadsheet
attached.

I would like to request the
information in questions 1-4 for the two years up to 30
September 2017, broken down into quarters as
follows:

1st October -
31st December 2015

1st January -
31st March 2016

1st April -
30th June 2016

1st July -
30th September 2016

1st October -
31st December 2016

1st January -
31st March 2017

1st April -
30th June 2017

1st July -
30th September 2017

Within your local
authority, how many 18-21 year olds:

Presented themselves as
homeless, or at risk of homelessness?

Were subsequently
assessed under the Housing Act 1996?

Were subsequently
accepted as homeless?

Were owed a full duty
under the Housing Act 1996?

Please also
confirm:

5. How many 18-21 year olds have you or
your partner agencies facilitated exemption for under the
Universal Credit (Housing Costs Element for claimants aged 18
to 21) (Amendment) Regulations 2017, since these Regulations
came into force on 1 April 2017?

Response

(1) & (2)

•1st October - 31st
December 2015 = 55

•1st January - 31st
March 2016 = 57

•1st April - 30th June
2016 = 54

•1st July - 30th
September 2016 = 21

•1st October - 31st
December 2016 = 45

•1st January - 31st
March 2017 = 23

•1st April - 30th June
2017 = 24

•1st July - 30th
September 2017 = 35

(3) and (4) are the same
question, (3) 'accepted' as homeless, is the same as (4) 'owed
a full duty'. These are the cases where the homeless decision
was made as 'Eligible, unintentionally homeless and in priority
need'. 18-21 year olds - 'Eligible, unintentionally homeless
and in priority need' decisions made during the following
quarters:

•1st October - 31st
December 2015 = 4

•1st January - 31st
March 2016 = 14

•1st April - 30th June
2016 = 8

•1st July - 30th
September 2016 = 33

•1st October - 31st
December 2016 = 8

•1st January - 31st
March 2017 = 5

•1st April - 30th June
2017 = 3

•1st July - 30th
September 2017 = 12

(5) None - Hastings
Borough Council only facilitate the beginning part of the
Universal Credit application where we help our customers to
register and to set up their claim but only up to the point
where the customer has their appointment with DWP. We only help
those customers that we have placed in temporary
accommodation/emergency accommodation. We do not know how many
of these claims become 'exemptions'.